Author @cramforce recounts a serendipitous reading sequence—first Nick Lane’s 2015 book The Vital Question (on bioenergetics and the origins of complexity) and then Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary (a 2021 science-fiction novel)—and humorously attributes the coincidence to “intelligent design.”
On 2026-06-12, @cramforce reports reading Nick Lane’s book The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life followed immediately by Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary.
In what might have been the finest bit of serendipitous curation in the history of multicellular life I first read Nick Lane's "The Vital Question, Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life" and then Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary".
This can only be explained by intelligent design.